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Foyle's War
TV series / 2002

Foyle's War

MysteryDramaWar & politicsCrime

★ 7.9/10112 votes

As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.

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Season 1 Series 1 2002 · 4 episodes Season details

The series begins in May 1940, a time when local Germans are being interned, the bombing of England has commenced, and anti-German feelings are running high. Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle's request for a service transfer is again denied, and he returns to local police work in Hastings. First broadcast in 2002 and covers the Spring/Summer of 1940.

Season 2 Series 2 2003 · 4 episodes Season details

It's Autumn, 1940, and DCS Foyle is once again thrust into the goings on around Hastings and beyond, investigating murder and other crimes committed during this time of war.

Season 3 Series 3 2004 · 4 episodes Season details

Set in Spring of 1941, once again we find ourselves in the midsts of mayhem and madness, as Foyle must determine the right from wrong in his home town. Even the war cannot prevent him from uncovering the truth behind organized crime, deserters and sabotage. First aired in 2004.

Season 4 Series 4 2006 · 2 episodes Season details

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Season 5 Series 5 2007 · 2 episodes Season details

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Season 6 Series 6 2008 · 3 episodes Season details

Covering the long year from April 1944 to May 1945, where the end of World War II slowly but inevitably approaches, Foyle and his fellow citizens learn the price of victory and face a peace that will transform their lives in unexpected ways.

Season 7 Series 7 2010 · 3 episodes Season details

We find Foyle in the Summer of 1945, In the immediate aftermath of World War II. Our Police detective now finds his longed-for retirement interrupted by cases of a different sort, involving international intrigue, military racism, and an accused traitor all too willing to go to the gallows.

Season 8 Series 8 2013 · 3 episodes Season details

World War II is over, but the Cold War simmers in the height of the 1946 London Summer. DCS Christopher Foyle has retired from police work when Britain's secret intelligence service compels him to join its ranks. Reunited with his former colleague, newlywed Sam Wainwright, Foyle faces new-but no less deadly-threats in the world of spies and counterintelligence.

Season 9 Series 9 2015 · 3 episodes Season details

The acclaimed detective series returns with more mysteries set in the uncertain days at the beginning of the Cold War. In the Autumn of 1946, former DCS Christopher Foyle now employs his unerring investigative skills in London on behalf of MI5, assisted by his ever-faithful driver, Sam Wainwright.

Cast

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Hermione GullifordElizabeth Addis Anthony FlanaganTom Jenkins · Policeman 2 Michael JaystonAC Henry Parkins Mali HarriesJane Milner Richard SymsVicar Fergus WebsterPC Fisher Philip FranksCaptain George Halliday Martin TurnerWing Commander Turner Tim DelapDoctor · Martin Ashford Corin RedgraveA.C.C. Rose · Asst. Commissioner Rose Tom BennettBen Barrett · Matthew Farley Rupert FrazerCommander Howard · Commander Charles Howard Jonah LotanJoe Farnetti Brian PoyserRev. Aubrey Stewart · Rev Aubrey Stewart Tony TurnerWarden · ARP Warden Perkins Caroline MartinEdith Ashford Jay BenedictCaptain John Kieffer · Major John Kiefer Polly MaberlyEdith Milner Jonathan TaflerSir David Woolf · Max Joseph Joseph KloskaDC Perkins Max BrownAdam Wainwright Will KeenAlan Deakin Stephen SwiftRadiation Soldier · Soldier at Barton Hall Alex ClatworthyCharlotte Karl ShielsMan with Photographer · American Major Marianne OldhamPatricia Scott Nigel TerryHugh Jackson Maggie SteedMargaret Ellis Sophia MylesSusan Gascoigne James McAvoyRay Pritchard Janine DuvitskiEve Redmond Emily BluntLucy Markham Stephen MooreIain Stewart Timothy CarltonAdmiral James Francis Peter Youngblood HillsJames Taylor Christina ColeViolet Davies Peter BlytheGrp Cpt. Lawrence Smythe Kenneth ColleyBrian Jones Amanda RootElizabeth Lewes Danny DyerTony Lucciano Roger AllamAlastair Graeme Will KnightleyArthur Browne Patrick GodfreyErnest Bannerman Alexandra MoenMary Wrenn David TroughtonMichael Bennett Anatole TaubmanRaimund Weiser Zoë TapperSusan Davies Paul BrookeArthur Ellis Henry GoodmanHoward Paige Ian BarrittVicar Benedict SandifordMark Andrews Cheryl CampbellEmily Gascoigne John WoodSir Michael Waterford Joe ArmstrongTom Jackson David RyallDr. Henderson John GrilloWatchmaker Roy MarsdenTed Cartwright Anton LesserAustin Carmichael Geoffrey ChaterProfessor Phillips Paul PutnerOfficial 2 Oliver Ford DaviesLawrence Gascoigne Alan HowardStephen Beck Ian HoggIan Lane Bill PatersonPatrick Jamieson Keith BarronDavid Barrett Angela ThorneLady Anne Messinger Selina CadellPamela Bennett James WilbyMajor Cornwall

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